Authors on Fire

Authors on Fire

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Authors on Fire episodes

  • Donna M. Young Firebird Book Award Winner & Author Interview
    Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else.  After decades in management  positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God to guide her to a new purpose. A beneficiary of many miracles, and grateful to be alive in order to learn more of Jesus, she now knows her purpose is to write for His glory and she joyfully shares the Gospel of Grace with anyone who will listen. A licensed pastor, Donna speaks at churches, women's groups and other Christian events.  She and her husband have raised a blended family of six children, twenty-four grandchildren, and six great grandchildren. Their lives have been filled with unique challenges and wonderful blessings as they've discovered more of God's exquisite love, in a lost and broken world.  
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    32 min
  • Bob Zeidman Firebird Book Award Winner and Author Interview
    Bob Zeidman created the field of software forensics and founded Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation to develop and sell software forensics tools. He is the founder of  Zeidman Consulting, an engineering consulting company that has worked on over 245 major litigations involving billions of dollars of disputed intellectual property. His cases have included ConnectU versus. Facebook, on which the Oscar-winning movie The Social Network is based, and Oracle versus. Google that went up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
    He is the inventor of the famous Silicon Valley Napkin novelty item on display at the Computer History Museum. He is also a high-stakes poker player, and his latest tech venture is Good Beat Poker, a new way to play and watch poker online.
    Bob has been writing regular articles for The Epoch Times, The American Spectator, RealClearPolitics, Political Vanguard, and white rose magazine. The author of four award-winning novels, he earned an Opus Magnum Discovery Award from the Hollywood Film Festival for his novel Horror Flick, where he got to walk the red carpet with Hollywood celebrities.
    His latest novel is Animal Lab, a modern update to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. It is a warning about the possible coming collapse of American society and along with it, American principles, values, and freedoms—torches that have lit the path for the advancement of the human condition for over two centuries and that must not be allowed to be extinguished.
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    29 min
  • Ames Sheldon Firebird Book Award Winner & Author Interview
    Ames Sheldon is the lead author and associate editor of the monumental reference work Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, which taught her to love writing about the history of women in America. She is the author of two award-winning historical novels with strong female protagonists. Eleanor's Wars won the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Best New Voice in Fiction. The sequel, Don't Put the Boats Away, won the Family Saga category in the 2020 American Fiction Awards, and was a finalist in the 2020 International Book Awards, the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and the 2019 Best Book Awards. Sheldon comes from a family of ardent supporters of reproductive rights for women.
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    17 min
  • A.G. Sullivan Firebird Book Award Winner & Author Interview
    Like life, my writing is a work in progress. With many incomplete stories, chapter books and novels outlined and partial completed, A.G. Sullivan has recently finished his first young adult novel, The Katzenstein Kids and the Eye of Horus. Read all about them under "My Work" 
    Since the age of 8, A.G. Sullivan has been writing and telling stories and letting his imagine unfold in the form of thought, art, architecture, poetry and literature. Over the years he would start and stop a number of story ideas in the hopes of someday getting to the joy of writing. Upon turning age 50, and under the pen name A.G. Sullivan, he finally reached the place in his life were writing can now fill his uninhibited ambitions.
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    30 min
  • Amy Schisler Firebird Book Award Winner & Author Interview
    Amy Schisler is a novelist, poet, children’s book author, spiritual writer, blogger, reader, and avid traveler with years of professional experience in all manner of writing-related endeavors. Whether she’s writing novels filled with faith and inspiration, books that children will love, or her weekly blog devoted to family life and faith, she loves connecting and resonating with her readers. Amy’s first novel, A Place to Call Home, a romantic suspense, debuted in 2014, and her much-loved Chincoteague Island Trilogy has won numerous literary awards.
    Amy lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland with her husband, Ken, their daughters, Katie and Morgan (and sometimes their daughter and son-in-law, Rebecca and Anthony), and their dog, Rosie. When she’s not writing, Amy can usually be found on a boat in the Chesapeake Bay or hiking in the Rocky Mountains, most often with a good book in her hand.
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    32 min
  • Adam Starks Firebird Book Award Winner & Author Interview
    Adam is a motivational keynote speaker on topics ranging from foster care, child welfare, youth homelessness, and trauma-informed care. As a product of the foster care system who broke the cycle, he empowers audiences to uplift at-promise youth by tapping into community resources to convert the potential in our youth toward positive outcomes. He serves on his local school board and as Vice President of the West Virginia CASA Association board. Adam is also a multi-genre author of books such as his autobiography, Broken Child Mended Man, and the children’s book, Love Will Find Your Home, with more to come. Currently, Adam is working on multiple writing projects including works of fiction, non-fiction, and more children’s books. Adam is also a podcast host for Fostering Success – a show dedicated to encouraging and empowering people toward their definition of success. During his downtime, he enjoys writing, reading, exploring new foods and drinks, traveling, and spending time with his wife and three children. 
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    29 min

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